内容正文:
Section Ⅱ Learning About Language
过去完成时和过去完成时的被动语态
[对应学生用书P90]
[观察]
1.Prior to coming to China,my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America,with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American tastes.
2.When my family and I had just arrived in China,we went looking for a good place to eat in Beijing.
3.A Sichuan restaurant had been recommended to us by a friend,and finally,we found it.
4.Tired,hungry,and not knowing a word of Chinese,we had no idea how to order,so the chef just began filling our table with the best food we had ever eaten.
[归纳]
1.以上句子中所用的时态都是过去完成时。
2.句2和句4中使用的是过去完成时态的主动语态,其基本结构是had+过去分词。
3.句1和句3中使用的是过去完成时态的被动语态,其基本结构是had+been+过去分词。
[对应学生用书P91]
1.构成:had+过去分词
2.用法
(1)表示在过去某一时间或动作之前已经发生或完成的动作。它表示这个动作发生的时间是“过去的过去”,这个过去的时间可用by,before等构成的短语及when,before,after,by the time等引导的状语从句表示。
By the end of last year,he had collected more than 100 foreign records.
到去年年底,他已收集了100多张外国唱片。
I had finished my homework before I had supper.
我在晚饭前已经把家庭作业做完了。
(2)表示从过去某一时间开始,延续到过去另一时间的动作。这个动作可能还要延续下去,常与for,since构成的表示一段时间的短语或since引导的表示一段时间的从句连用。
When I saw him,he had not eaten anything for two days.
当我看到他时,他已经两天没吃任何东西了。
He said that great changes had taken place in his hometown since 1990.
他说自从1990年以来他的家乡发生了很大的变化。
(3)表示原计划或打算做某事而没有做成。常用动词有want,mean,plan,hope,suppose,expect,intend等。
They had wanted to help but couldn't get there in time.
他们本来是要去帮忙的,但未能及时赶到那里。
He had hoped to catch the 8:00 bus,but found it gone.
他原本希望赶上8点的公共汽车,却发现那趟车已经走了。
3.特殊句式
(1)It/This/That was the first/second ...time that sb.had done sth.这是/那是某人第一次/第二次……做某事。
This was the second time that the musician had toured Europe.
这是这位音乐家第二次在欧洲巡回演出。
(2)用于hardly/scarcely ...when,no sooner ... than句式中。
The audience had hardly been seated when the saxophone solo started.
观众刚落座,萨克斯独奏就开始了。
I had no sooner finished the work than the light went out.
我刚完成工作,灯就熄灭了。
①上面两个句子可以把hardly,no sooner提到句首变成倒装句,时态不变。
Hardly had the audience been seated when the saxophone solo started.
No sooner had I finished the work than t